Our favorite Thanksgiving quotes

While pondering what you’re particularly thankful for this year, take some inspiration from others’ thoughts on the holiday. Mycatholicblog presents some of our favorite Thanksgiving quotes:

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, “Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England”.– Jay Leno

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. -Johannes A. Gaertner

When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat. – David Letterman

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. -William Faulkner

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John F. Kennedy

and just for fun, here’s our favorite Thanksgiving joke–
Q: Why can’t you bring a turkey to church?
A: Because they have such FOWL language!